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Bangkok shrine attack suspect 'gave device to bomber' | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Thai police say a key suspect in the Bangkok shrine bombing has confessed to giving a bag containing a device to the man who carried out the attack. | |
National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri's announcement came as the suspect, Yusufu Mieraili, was taken to a train station in Bangkok to re-enact the alleged handover. | |
The 17 August blast at the Erawan Shrine killed 20 people. | |
Two foreign men are in custody, but the bomber himself has not been found. | |
The man, wearing a yellow T-shirt, was seen placing a backpack at the popular shrine and leaving, shortly before the explosion. | |
'It was a bomb' | |
Mr Prawut told reporters at the Hua Lamphong station in Bangkok: "This is the area where he met the man in a yellow shirt to exchange the backpack." | |
"Yusufu said the backpack that he carried was heavy and it was a bomb," he said. | |
Mr Mieraili, who has not been charged, was intercepted earlier this month as he attempted to cross the border into Cambodia. | |
Police have not confirmed his nationality but say he was carrying a Chinese passport. | |
On Tuesday, he was taken to visit two apartments in other parts of Bangkok where police said they found bomb-making materials as well as passports. | |
The other man in custody has been named by local media as Adem Karadag. | |
Local media have quoted police sources as saying that they are hunting for the alleged mastermind of the attack, who is thought to have left Thailand a day before the attack. | |
Police also released a photo of the man, who was named as 27-year-old Abudureheman Abudusataer, also known as "Izan" or "Ishan". |